Transcript of "SociologyExchange.co.uk Shared Resource"

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Using the mini whiteboards… When we’ve decided on the answer, write down the key idea and who said it

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<ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>This person suggests most families are still fairly traditional, with children bought up by couples. This is similar to Chester’s view.

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<ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>This person thinks that because of the decline in tradition, we engage in calculating risks and rewards of different options. And that patriarchy has been undermined. By greater gender equality, and greater individualism (actions are more about self-interest)

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<ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>This person suggests that especially in under 35s, there is a growing acceptance of family diversity e.g. regarding homosexuality and cohabitation

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<ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>This person used life history interviews for their research

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This person thinks that people are free to act out their own roles (rather than filling the defined roles of the nuclear family) because contraception allowed sex rather than reproducing to be main reason for relationship and women have independence as a result of feminism and improved opportunities. <ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Giddens </li></ul><ul><li>Beck </li></ul><ul><li>Stacey </li></ul><ul><li>Weeks </li></ul>This person found that women rather than men have been the main agents of changes in the family and that many women rejected the housewife-mother role, instead creating new types of family better suited to their needs.